Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Does productivity influence priority setting? A case study from the field of CVD prevention. | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation BioMed Central Research Does productivity influence priority setting A case study from the field of CVD prevention Lars Lindholm 1 Emil Lofroth1 2 and Mâns Rosén3 Open Access Address 1Umeâ International School of Public Health and Centre for Populations Studies Ageing and Living Conditions Programme Umeâ University Sweden 2Centre for Epidemiology National Board of Health and Welfare Stockholm Sweden and 3The Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care Stockholm Sweden Email Lars Lindholm - Emil Lofroth - Mâns Rosén - Corresponding author Published 17 March 2008 Received 30 May 2007 . Accepted 17 March 2008 Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2008 6 6 doi 1478-7547-6-6 This article is available from http content 6 1 6 2008 Lindholm et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract In this case study different measures aimed at preventing cardiovascular diseases CVD in different target groups have been ranked based on cost per QALY from a health care sector perspective and from a societal perspective respectively. The innovation in this study is to introduce a budget constraint and thereby show exactly which groups would be included or excluded in treatment or intervention programs based on the two perspectives. Approximately 90 of the groups are included in both perspectives. Mainly elderly women are excluded when the societal perspective is used and mainly middle-aged men are excluded when the health care sector perspective is used. Elderly women have a higher risk of CVD and generally lower income than middle-aged men. Thus the exclusion
